On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Watchmaker. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as horologist or maker and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Watchmaker meaning
- A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains watches.
- God in His role as the creator according to the watchmaker analogy.
Synonyms of Watchmaker
Using Watchmaker
- The main meaning on this page is: A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains watches. | God in His role as the creator according to the watchmaker analogy.
- Useful related words include: horologist, horologer, maker, shaper.
- In the example corpus, watchmaker often appears in combinations such as: swiss watchmaker, blind watchmaker, the watchmaker.
Context around Watchmaker
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 14 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Watchmaker
- In this selection, "watchmaker" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, blind, swiss, japanese, analogy, characteristics and nor stand out and add context to how "watchmaker" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a blind watchmaker in that and a disinterested watchmaker nor a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "watchmaker" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with watchmaker
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The result: The next year, female chief executive of a Richemont watchmaker. (12 words)
Ohtani represents largely high-end brands, a Japanese bank and a Japanese watchmaker. (13 words)
Sea of Stars – Throes of the Watchmaker DLC – Indie World Showcase 8.27. (13 words)
In the chapter "The one true tree of life" in The Blind Watchmaker, he argues that it is not only zoological taxonomy that is saved from awkward ambiguity by the extinction of intermediate forms, but also human ethics and law. (40 words)
Two armed men fled with several luxury watches after bursting into a branch of Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet in Paris’s chic eighth arrondissement on Saturday, police said, the latest in a string of robberies in the French capital. (39 words)
He was told that he was better suited as a watchmaker than a lawyer, but by then, Jean's father had already retired, so he became an apprentice to his cousin who had a watch-shop. (36 words)
So does God, the Trinity, create and set things running, then stand back and observe as with the deist 'Blind Watchmaker' analogy used by Dawkins? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
Deist – God is an engineer or watchmaker Characteristics of Spiritual Presences Pantheist – god is everywhere in nature.
Longines’ Master Collection is often regarded as a flagship collection for the Swiss watchmaker, which was founded in 1832.
Ohtani represents largely high-end brands, a Japanese bank and a Japanese watchmaker.
His hand is neither that of a disinterested watchmaker nor a burdened Atlas, just keeping time or holding the world aloft.
Sea of Stars – Throes of the Watchmaker DLC – Indie World Showcase 8.27.
The Swiss luxury watchmaker on Monday revealed the release of a limited-edition watch that marks the Year of the Dragon: The Portugieser Chronograph Year of the Dragon.
So does God, the Trinity, create and set things running, then stand back and observe as with the deist 'Blind Watchmaker' analogy used by Dawkins?
Adrian Wojnarowski this year became a for a watchmaker that is a main sponsor for the NBA, the league he covers.
In 2017, she became the first watchmaker in British history to earn a PhD in horology.
The result: The next year, female chief executive of a Richemont watchmaker.
The seventeenth of December 1903 was an ordinary day for JCH Ellehammer, a middle-aged watchmaker from Denmark.
Two armed men fled with several luxury watches after bursting into a branch of Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet in Paris’s chic eighth arrondissement on Saturday, police said, the latest in a string of robberies in the French capital.
He was told that he was better suited as a watchmaker than a lawyer, but by then, Jean's father had already retired, so he became an apprentice to his cousin who had a watch-shop.
His father wanted him to be a lawyer, but Robert-Houdin wanted to follow into his father's footsteps as a watchmaker.
Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any designer.
In the chapter "The one true tree of life" in The Blind Watchmaker, he argues that it is not only zoological taxonomy that is saved from awkward ambiguity by the extinction of intermediate forms, but also human ethics and law.
It was during this period while at a party that he met the daughter of a Parisian watchmaker, Monsieur Jacques François Houdin, who had also come from Jean Robert's native Blois.
Midtown is also home to watchmaker Shinola and an array of small and/or startup companies.
Richard Dawkins dedicated a chapter in The Blind Watchmaker to correcting, in his view, the wide confusion regarding rates of change.
Such publications introduced concepts central to intelligent design, including irreducible complexity (a variant of the watchmaker analogy) and specified complexity (closely resembling a fine-tuning argument).
Common combinations with watchmaker
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- swiss watchmaker 3×
- blind watchmaker 3×
- the watchmaker 2×
- watchmaker in 2×
- as watchmaker 2×